The Trading Empire Vikings : Season 1 Episode 2
BBC Two 59m
Aired: September 18th, 2012 @ 9:00 PM EST on BBC Two
Neil Oliver heads out from the Scandinavian homelands to Russia, Turkey and Ireland to trace the beginnings of a vast trading empire that handled Chinese silks as adeptly as Pictish slaves. Neil discovers a world of 'starry-eyed maidens' and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-wielding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.
